The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-03
authorized the Union National bank Of Du-
luth, Mimi, to begin business with a cap
ital Of s5O0,OOo.
the EAST.

the EAST.
The trial Of John O'Neill, the third of the
indicted Aldermen of the Doodle board Of
1884, was begun at New York City on the
Oath. The entire session of the court was
consumed in the work of selecting jurors.
The fine of $400 which was placed against
the schooner A. B. Crittenden, of Glouces-
ter, Mass, when it was seized at Port
Hawkesbury recently for alleged violation
of Canadian laws, has been remitted by the
customs authorities of Ottawa
The annual report of the treasurer Of
Harvard College shows that the invested
funds of the university amounts to S., 100, 772,
an increase over the previous year Of about
S270, 200. This amount produced last year a
revenue of s260.303. The total income Of
the year was s6Ss, ,21s; the total expenses
S626, ,S99. E
The immense breaker Of the Parrish Coal
Company at Plymouth, Pa, valued at $780,
0C0, was destroyed by fire on the 25th. It
was filled with all the latest improved ma
chinery and gave employment to 800 men
and boys who are thrown out Of employ
ment for some time to come.
John N. Laird, the veteran editor Of the
Greensburg (Pa.) Argus, died at his home
in that place on the 25th, the result Of q
fall a few Days ago. He was born in 1901,
and, with probably one or two exceptions,
was the oldest editor in the State.
The demands Of the employees Of the Ma
tional Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa, for
an advance in wages has been granted Tho
increase will average fifteen per cent and
affects 2. 800 workmen.
At Mount Morris, N. Y, the house In
which Henry Higgins, an old soldier who
had recently drawn some pension money,
resided, was burned few days ago, and
Higgins body was subsequently found in
the ruins. Foul play was suspected, and
two men, named Crowley and johnson,
have been arrested.
A caucus of the Republican members Of
the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 25th
resolved to propose for submission to the
people an amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting the manufacture and sale OF in
toxicating liquors to be used as a beverage.
The coal operators along the Baltimore &
Ohio district in Pennsylvania have been
compelled to close down number Of their
works on account Of the scarcity Of cars.
About 900 miners are thus thrown out Of
employment.
ported at the New York sanitary headquar-
ters on the 26th. The health officers ex-
press fears that an epidemic is imminent.
In family quarrel on the 26th Jake Van
Vert, a farmer living near Wellsboro, Pa,
was shot and instantly killed by his six
teen-year-old wife.
A battery Of three boilers in Harvey's
paper mill at Wellsburg, Va, exploded on
the Doth. The western portion of the mill
was completely shattered and John Nelson
and his nephew, Thomas Nelson, were in
stantly killed. Three other men sustained
serious injuries.
The union coal trainmen on the Lehigh
Valley road at Perth Amb oy, N. j., struck
on the 26th because the road employed non-
union men to handle its coal. This cuts
The company is endeavoring to hire new
men.
The Havemeyer Sug ar Refining Compa-
ny's works at Greenpoint, L. L., have been
closed, throwing q large number Of men
out OF employment. The company was
compelled to suspend operations because OF
their coal supplies running short, as a re-
suit of the coal heavens strike.
In the Egypt oil district near Oil City,
Pa, on the 26th the explosion of boiler
killed Samuel Mccormick, aged fourteen,
and William Maitland, aged nineteen, who
were in charge Of the engine. The boiler
was blown to atoms.
A new bank, to be known as the Western
gapized with capital of $3,00O,G00. C. N.
Jordan, Treasurer of the United States, is
to be its president.
The police of Wilkesbarre, Pa, have un-
earthed a regularly organized gang of rob
bers in that city, the Oldest of whom is
eleven, and the youngest five years Of age
Six of them were arrested, and about as
many more will soon be apprehended. Their
thieving operations We're conducted on q
systematic scale. They have robbed at least
forty merchants and their stealings foot up
IS 1000 as far as known.
The operative tailors of Boston, Mass,
including the machine operators and all
others engaged in the manufacture of
ready-made clothing, who are members Of
the Knights of Labor, held a meeting few
nights ago and decided to withdraw from
that organization and apply to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor for charter.
They number at least 5000
A fire at Mercer, Pa, on the 9th de-
stroyed the Opera House block, causing a
loss of about s40, 900.
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, has
received letter from Mrs. Van Zandt, the
mother Of Miss Nina Van Zandt, of Chica-
go, asking him to act as counsel for the An
archists before the Supreme Court. He
declined to lend his services in the matter